I've never been able to figure out why they execute people with drug combinations at all -- if the goal is a quick, humane, unembarrassing death, why not just flood the execution chamber with nitrogen or some other inert gas? By all accounts, dying of nitrogen suffocation is quick, reliable, and painless -- you don't even feel like you're suffocating, since that feeling is brought on by a buildup of CO2 rather than by a lack of oxygen. Instead, you just pass out.

For applications, a developer signs up with Apple (for $99/year) and part of what they get out of that is a private key that allows them to sign their applications. I don't know if the signing system for drivers is similar, but I don't see any reason why it couldn't be.

It benefits the user by allowing Apple to (largely) ensure that signed code on the user's machine is code that was written by a developer that isn't a known malware source. If the user could choose a different certificate authority, then every "see the dancing pigs for free" malware app could just instruct the user to choose SuperL33TChineseCertificatAuthority as a trusted certificate authority, and we'd be back to square one.

tl;dr taking the 'whom to trust" decision out of the user's hands means it is impossible for the user to screw that decision up.

So that if the Mac ever stops working, I can tell my Mom to just take it to the Apple store and they will fix it for her.

If the Mac contains a 3rd-party drive and it breaks, the Apple store will likely hand it right back to her and say "we can't support 3rd-party products". (At least, that's what happened last time I tried to save money by putting 3rd-party RAM into her Mac Mini) Then I will have to fly out and fix it myself, or temporarily remove the 3rd-party drive and replace it with the original Apple-supplied one, before the Mac can be made operational again.

It's worth something extra to keep the system entirely-Apple-supplied, so that there's no quibbling about who is responsible to fix what when something goes wrong. How much extra depends on how much your time is worth.

But surely the CIA/Mossad would be clever enough to realize that Anonanonaon would quickly figure out their False Flag strategy and expose them on Slashdot, so they'd know better than to try it... meaning that the only remaining explanation is that Russia put out the fake photo as a False False Flag attack, to make the CIA/Mossad look bad!

This is why you never go in against a Russian when death is on the line!

Speak for yourself, bucko. ;)

I can think of one... Apple. Try bringing your $6,000+ quad-Xeon cheese-grater Mac Pro into an Apple Store for support -- the "geniuses" will all gather round to look at the fascinating museum piece, before they tell you that they can't help you with your "legacy Mac". :^P

No doubt that explains why they are such a tiny company that nobody has ever heard of, with such a minuscule user base. Do I detect some sour grapes?

Like others I found the headline confusing. I read it as "Researchers are predicting the use of Wikipedia as a vector for the spread of disease". This may mean that:

• Disinformation and ignorance are diseases.
• Memes and computer viruses are diseases.
• Wilipedia contains information that leads to depression.
• Instructions on Wikipedia lead to substance abuse.
• This is getting entertaining, fill in your own reason here.

Of course, a dishonest police officer can always find something to cover the camera with, or "accidentally" put it on backwards, or "forget" to charge the battery, or any number of other subtle or not-so-subtle bits of sabotage.

The real endgame arrives only when both the police officer and any person (s)he comes in contact with are both recording video. In that case both parties will have an incentive to record everything, since otherwise only the other party will have (possibly selective/edited) video evidence to provide.

Sure, in the same way that everyday mechanical physics is nothing more or less than the integral of quantum mechanics.

The statement is technically true, but also quite misleading, in that in both cases knowing something about the behavior at one scale isn't going to give you much intuition about how things behave at the other.

Where less than 20% of the MBAs are employable. They'll do anything to get that skin, and then do nothing with it but weedle. I had to interview over 5k of them just to come up with 150 that were anywhere near hiring, and 10% of those didn't make the first six months. That figure fell to 50% after two years, as they were constantly looking for lateral moves inside the country. The country? China.

Sounds like you, for one, don't welcome our new bitcoin & Tesla pimping overlords.

The antelope refuge?

Whereas in fact manly vigor comes from driving a dinosaur-sized truck that guzzles fossil fuel.

Ignoring the "spectra of a waking dragon" (whatever the hell that is), and fact that you don't appear to understand the difference between 'weather' and 'climate' -- can you point to the place in the report where it says that "climate change is our biggest threat"?

I suspect you cannot, and the reason you cannot is because you pulled that claim out of your ass.